Tory ex-ministers raise ‘real concerns’ over free speech bill
Bill opens door to ‘vexatious’ lawsuits against universities and to ministerial ‘control-freakery’ on overseas funding, warn Lord Willetts and Lord Johnson
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Wales creates single post-16 education regulator
Move to ‘break down barriers’ and create ‘parity of esteem’ through whole system approach seen as potential model for England
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Tec de Monterrey splashes $100 million on top Western scholars
Latin American leader aims to hire 100 elite faculty, drawing needed talent to developing world
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Are universities over-assessing their students?
The number of assignments per term has been going up and up; is continuous assessment now harming, rather than helping, students’ learning?
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Taliban begins religious reform of Afghan universities
Religious requirements tripled, forcing some institutions to make cuts to core courses
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Sussex reaps REF rewards from Kathleen Stock’s trans research
Analysis suggests philosophy professor’s old department may net as much as £333,000 from the activities that saw her targeted by activists
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Student enrolment boom seen in Australian census ‘already gone’
While Covid may have ushered record numbers of Australians to university, a chipper labour market is luring them away again
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There is still more to learn from Pride
As Pride Month draws to a close, Nick Braisby reflects on what it means to himÂ
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UK pledges extra £10 million to help Ukrainian researchers
Expanded government support will fund two-year research fellowships for 130 Ukrainian academics, says science minister
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Closing our English literature degree is not an attack on the humanities
We distract from the debate on the importance of the arts if we don’t review and re-energise our humanities offerings, says Chris Husbands
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Recruitment reforms urged to curb French ‘moustache positions’
Parisian professor says hers is the first to appoint a selection committee by lot, an approach that should be taken up nationwide
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Will China ever recover its international student flows?
Higher education analysts mull China’s continued attractiveness as a student destination amid its zero-Covid policy and scant foreign student returnees
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US abortion ruling ‘another blow’ to women’s educational chances
Estimated 180,000 students – mostly low-income women – face disruption to academic careers as states allowed to forbid female healthcare
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Repression or ‘polite reticence’? Unpacking self-censorship
Dearth of data undermines understanding of cancel culture and other campus codes of silence
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Talking leadership 32: John Cater on being UK HE’s longest-serving leader
The vice-chancellor of Edge Hill University discusses centralising spending, climbing up the rankings and leading the institution for almost 30 years